THE BEGINNINGS OF NEW ENGLAND
Or, the Puritan Theocracy in its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty. Crown 8vo, $2.00. Illustrated Edition. Containing Portraits, Maps, Facsimiles, Contemporary Views, Prints, and other Historic Materials. 2 vols. 8vo, gilt top, $4.00.
Having in the first chapters strikingly and convincingly shown that New England's history was the birth of centuries of travail, and having prepared his readers to estimate at their true importance the events of our early colonial life, Mr. Fiske is ready to take up his task as the historian of the New England of the Puritans.... The last chapters give a broad and fair account of the history of the time, but it is easy to see that in his choice of facts, the author has exercised a large power of selection,—a selection which we may note is wonderful in its unfailing accuracy of estimate. As he is busy with the progress towards civil and religious liberty which culminated in the Revolution, his facts are chosen to illustrate that progress.—Boston Daily Advertiser.